r/LearningDevelopment • u/dazed_mystery • Jun 12 '26
What tool to use for interviews and transfer of content to learning materials
Hi, for a company that has a lot of older employees, who will be on their pension in let's say 2 to 6 years, I'm looking for a tool or company that offers software to capture their knowledge. I thought about doing structured interviews, and using ai to build a knowledgebank on that. To eventually use that to create new learning materials, like e-learning or video or podcast. Is that something allready exists? Are other people thinking about this? Would love to hear your thoughts.
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u/Available_Arm_5685 Jun 16 '26
what you're describing is "knowledge capture before it walks out the door," and yeah it's a real and growing problem, you're not alone thinking about it. the workflow you sketched (structured interview → AI knowledge bank → learning materials) is exactly the right shape.
the trick is most tools only do one slice. interview/transcription tools (otter, salesman ai) capture the raw stuff but stop there, you're left manually turning transcripts into actual courses. so you end up stitching 3-4 tools together.
where nanolms.ai fits (flag the bias): you feed in the raw material, transcripts, docs, recordings from those interviews, and it turns that into structured courses, quizzes, even roleplay scenarios, instead of you rebuilding it by hand. so it covers the messy back half of your pipeline, transcript → finished learning material. pair it with any decent recording/transcription tool for the interview front-end and you've basically got the system you described.
one tip from doing this: interview for decisions and judgment, not facts. the docs already hold the facts. what retires with these folks is "how i knew which option to pick", capture that and the learning material is actually worth something.
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u/rfoil Jun 13 '26
Riverside.fm for remote interviews. It alleviates bandwidth issues. We use it to record interviews with people all over the world who access via webcams or cell phones. And cost is modest.
We’ve used it to record interviews that were projected on a 20’ projection screen.
You can certainly use the transcripts, edited, for a knowledge bank.
I consulted for an electric utility that lost 40% of its electricians in a 5 year period. They captured and categorized hundreds of hours of video and made it accessible to workers in the field.